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Royal Institution
The Royal Institution of Great Britain (often abbreviated as the Royal Institution or RI) is an organisation devoted to scientific education and research, based in London.
Overview
The Royal Institution was founded in 1799 by the leading British scientists of the age, including Henry Cavendish and its first president, George Finch, the 9th Earl of Winchilsea, for
Much of its initial funding and the initial proposal for its founding were given by the Society for Bettering the Conditions and Improving the Comforts of the Poor, under the guidance of philanthropist Sir Thomas Bernard and American-born British scientist Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford. Since its founding it has been based at 21 Albemarle Street in Mayfair. Its Royal Charter was granted in 1800. The Institution announced in January 2013 that it was considering sale of its Mayfair headquarters to meet its mounting debts.
History
Throughout its history, the Institution has supported public engagement with science through a program of lectures, many of which continue today. The most famous of these are the annual Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, founded by Michael Faraday.
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Royal institute
Royal Institute or Royal Institution may refer to the following, among other institutions:
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Great Britain
Great Britain, also known as Britain 
i/ˈbrɪ.tən/, is an island in the North Atlantic off the north-west coast of continental Europe. With an area of 209,331 km2 (80,823 sq mi), it is the largest island in Europe and the ninth-largest in the world. In 2011 the island had a population of about 61 million people, making it the third-most populous island in the world, after Java in Indonesia and Honshu in Japan. It accounts for the majority of the British Isles archipelago, along with over 1,000 smaller surrounding islands, including the island of Ireland to its west.
The island is part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, constituting most of its territory: most of England, Scotland, and Wales are on the island, with their respective capital cities, London, Edinburgh, and Cardiff. Politically, the term Great Britain usually extends to include surrounding islands that form part of England, Scotland, and Wales.
A single Kingdom of Great Britain resulted from the Union of Scotland and England (which already comprised the present-day countries of England and Wales) in 1707. More than a hundred years before, in 1603, King James VI, King of Scots, had inherited the throne of England, but it was not until 1707 that the Parliaments of the two countries agreed to form a unified state. Subsequently, in 1801, Great Britain united with the neighbouring Kingdom of Ireland, forming the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The state was renamed the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" after five-sixths of Ireland seceded from the United Kingdom in 1922.
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Great Britain (play)
Great Britain is a satirical play written by Richard Bean. It received its world premiere at the Royal National Theatre, London on 30 June 2014, before transferring to the West End's Theatre Royal Haymarket.
Production history
Great Britain is written by English playwright Richard Bean. In May 2013, it was revealed Bean was working on a new play based on the phone hacking scandal, having been commissioned by National Theatre artistic director Sir Nicholas Hytner, whilst still working on his hit play One Man, Two Guvnors. Speaking about the play he revealed that it would be set in a tabloid newsroom and is a play about the state-of-the-nation, press, politics and police in bed with each other. In March 2014, it was revealed that an undisclosed Bean play would premiere as part of the National Theatre 2014-15 season. The season would mark Hytner's last as artistic director of the National Theatre. In May 2014, it was revealed that Billie Piper and Oliver Chris were taking part in workshops for the play and that the cast and crew had signed non-disclosure agreements for the as yet untitled production.
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List of Cyborg 009 characters
This is a list of fictional characters appearing in the Cyborg 009 manga by Shotaro Ishinomori and its adaptations.
Protagonists
00 Cyborgs
Joe is originally from Japan, although he is actually half-Japanese who's unknown father was presumably a soldier in the US Army stationed in Japan after World War II. A delinquent youth who was shunned by his peers because he was a Half Breed, he escaped from a juvenile detention facility before being captured by Black Ghost. In the 2001 anime, after his father disappeared and his mother died on the steps at his childbirth, he was an orphan taken in by a Catholic priest from Kanazawa along with their street friends Mary Onodera (perhaps a tribute to Shotaro Ishinomori, his birth name being Shotaro Onodera), Shin'ichi Ibaraki and Masaru Oyamada, then when he turned 18 his mentor was killed by Black Ghost members after they used a group of children that he raised in the church as guinea pigs for the Cyborg project; Joe was wrongfully blamed, then captured by the priest's killers and made into a cyborg. In the 1960 and 1980 film versions, Joe was a famous racer, nicknamed "Hurricane Joe", who gets into a crash and is recovered by Black Ghost (similar to 004's origin). Joe received several body enhancements during the process of being turned into a cyborg. He is super-humanly strong, resistant to damage, can leap large distances, and can breathe underwater. His most prominent ability is the power to move at a speed so fast that everything else looks like a statue to him, this is triggered by a switch embedded in his teeth. However, he cannot touch any normal creatures such as humans in this state; the high speeds would kill or otherwise cause serious injury to the creature through air friction. During each of the series, he acts as the field leader and first line attack of the 00 Cyborgs.
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The harsh reality of ultra processed food - with Chris Van Tulleken
We're in a new age of eating, but how is ultra processed food harming our bodies - and the world? Buy Chris's book here: https://geni.us/YqqoR Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe 00:00 Why we need to talk about our diets 03:40 We’re part of an experiment we didn’t sign up for 10:05 What is ultra processed food? 12:50 What Donald Trump got right about UPF 14:20 What Diet Coke does to your health 17:53 How ultra processed food is made 23:55 Why does ultra processed food cause obesity? 29:05 Doesn’t exercise burn calories? 35:37 What about willpower and diet? 38:18 What role do stress and genes play? 39:45 How does ultra processed food harm us? 47:33 How UPF affects the planet 50:41 Ultra processed food is addictive 52:25 The food system is financialised 54:28 Wh...
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The science of mental health - with Camilla Nord
How does the body affect our brain, and vice versa? Can exercise, psychedelics, or the gut biome improve your mental health? Find out with neuroscientist Camilla Nord. Watch the Q&A here (exclusively for our YouTube channel members): https://youtu.be/OP6_xnzIhuI Buy Camilla's book 'The Balanced Brain: The Science of Mental Health' here: https://geni.us/tBErOVE This talk was recorded at the Ri on 4 March 2024. In this talk, Camilla reframes mental health as an intricate, automated process that is different for all of us, relying on the way our bodily processes and our expectations of the world interact in our brains. She explains how our brain uses dopamine to learn what to expect, and how that can change the way we feel day to day. She looks at a variety of treatments, from therapy and ...
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What is life and how does it work? - with Philip Ball
Discover a leading-edge new vision of biology that will revise our concept of what life itself is, and how to enhance it. Sign up as a member to watch the Q&A for this talk, and get early ad-free access to all our talks: https://youtu.be/CEoJ88W4aXQ Buy Philip's book here: https://geni.us/HWnEn8V 00:00 Intro - what is the secret of life? 04:09 Is the human genome a blueprint or a musical score? 7:58 Crick's central dogma of biology 12:03 What scientists got wrong about genes and proteins 18:50 Why evolution chose disordered proteins 22:27 The process of gene regulation 27:03 Why life doesn't work like clockwork 30:29 The growth of intestinal villi 32:18 Why do we have five fingers? 34:55 Causal emergence 38:09 Do all parts of us have their own agency? 42:46 How does this affect genetic a...
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The most surprising discoveries from our universe – with Chris Lintott
Did you know that many profound discoveries about our universe have been made accidentally? Find out more with Chris Lintott. Buy Chris' book 'Our Accidental Universe: Stories of Discovery from Asteroids to Aliens' here: https://geni.us/IEBBkkY Watch the Q&A here: https://youtu.be/zKlv8zeBCnU Join BBC Sky at Night presenter and Gresham Professor of Astronomy Chris Lintott as he unravels tales of peculiar accidents, remarkable individuals, and the occasional human oversight that have collectively shaped some of the most pivotal celestial revelations. This lecture was recorded at the Ri on 21 March 2024. 00:00 Intro – our accidental universe 4:08 The incredible discovery made on Saturn’s moon Enceladus 13:27 Searching for life across the cosmos 19:16 Radio signals from across the univer...
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At the limits of astrophysics – with Katy Clough
Why does modern astronomy often sound like science fiction? And how do objects like supermassive black holes, wormholes and warp drives fit into our current understanding of physics? Watch the Q&A here: https://youtu.be/Pg8jxhCO0m8 Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe This event was recorded at the Royal Institution on 23 March 2023. Much of modern astronomy sounds a lot like science fiction - gravitational ripples in the fabric of spacetime, supermassive black holes hiding at the centre of galaxies, habitable exoplanets within the reach of our telescopes…are there any limits to what is out there? Whilst largely considered to be firmly in the category of fiction, such concepts are nevertheless based on solid scientific ideas about the curvature of spacetime ...
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What's the future for generative AI? - The Turing Lectures with Mike Wooldridge
AI can now generate human-like language and artwork - but what other doors might it open in future? And how can we harness AI to make great leaps in technology possible? This talk was filmed at the Ri on 6 December 2023, in partnership with The Alan Turing Institute. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYeF244yNGuFefuFKqxIAXw/join Watch the Q&A with Mike here, exclusively for members: https://youtu.be/KSuUfU6x8rg Join 2023 CHRISTMAS LECTURER Michael Wooldridge for a fascinating discussion on the possibilities and challenges of generative AI models, and their potential impact on future societies. Find out more about the CHRISTMAS LECTURES here: https://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures 00:00 What is machine learning? 05:54 How do neural networks wor...
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Royal Institution
The Royal Institution of Great Britain is an organisation for scientific education and research, based in the City of Westminster. It was founded in 1799 by the leading British scientists of the age, including Henry Cavendish and its first president, George Finch, the 9th Earl of Winchilsea. Its foundational principles were diffusing the knowledge of, and facilitating the general introduction of, useful mechanical inventions and improvements, as well as enhancing the application of science to the common purposes of life.
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The dark history of genetics - with Adam Rutherford (2023 HBS Haldane Lecture)
Genetics is a subject with a long past, and some of our greatest geneticists have had some troubling beliefs. Join this channel to watch the Q&A for this lecture: https://youtu.be/HM50DQsfV7Q Buy Adam's book 'Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics' here: https://geni.us/OrlwiUF This lecture was recorded at the Ri on 11 October 2023. Join the 2023 JBS Haldane Lecturer Adam Rutherford as he explores how, as we continue to use and celebrate the advances of our intellectual predecessors, we frequently fail to acknowledge the toxic political views that informed their work. Even today, scientists are not exempt from their culture, and science is always political. In this talk Adam will explore the work, views and legacies of some of our heroes, including Karl Pearson, Ro...
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What is a white hole? – with Carlo Rovelli
Journey into the enigmatic depths of a black hole, with beloved physicist Carlo Rovelli. Buy Carlo's book here: https://geni.us/nNB6xAs Become one of our YouTube channel members and watch the Q&A with Carlo here: https://youtu.be/AVCFV4OLYfQ This talk was recorded at the Ri on 27 October 2023. 00:00 Intro 3:35 Why do black holes appear circular? 6:05 Travelling into a black hole 10:34 The space inside a black hole 18:50 The quantum properties of gravity 24:06 Loop quantum theory 27:42 Quantum jumps and white holes 32:49 Going beyond Einstein’s theory 34:46 How long does a white hole take to form? 39:51 How do we prove the white hole theory? 45:22 Dark matter and the crisis in physics 49:48 Can we detect white holes? 52:24 Science as mind travel Step beyond the event horizon of a black ...
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Solving the secrets of gravity - with Claudia de Rham
A world-renowned physicist seeks gravity’s true nature, and finds wisdom in embracing its force in her life. Watch the Q&A for this talk here (exclusively for YouTube channel members): https://youtu.be/7-7ZWJofZwU Buy Claudia's book 'The Beauty of Falling' here: https://geni.us/AMORTv This talk was recorded at the Ri on 13 April 2024. Join this channel to get access to perks and support our charitable work: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYeF244yNGuFefuFKqxIAXw/join Claudia de Rham has been playing with gravity her entire life. As a diver, experimenting with her body’s buoyancy in the Indian Ocean. As a pilot, soaring over Canadian waterfalls on dark mornings before beginning her daily scientific research. As an astronaut candidate, dreaming of the experience of flying free from Eart...
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The harsh reality of ultra processed food - with Chris Van Tulleken
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We're in a new age of eating, but how is ultra processed food harming our bodies - and the world?
Buy Chris's book here: https://geni.us/YqqoR
Subscribe for re...
We're in a new age of eating, but how is ultra processed food harming our bodies - and the world?
Buy Chris's book here: https://geni.us/YqqoR
Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe
00:00 Why we need to talk about our diets
03:40 We’re part of an experiment we didn’t sign up for
10:05 What is ultra processed food?
12:50 What Donald Trump got right about UPF
14:20 What Diet Coke does to your health
17:53 How ultra processed food is made
23:55 Why does ultra processed food cause obesity?
29:05 Doesn’t exercise burn calories?
35:37 What about willpower and diet?
38:18 What role do stress and genes play?
39:45 How does ultra processed food harm us?
47:33 How UPF affects the planet
50:41 Ultra processed food is addictive
52:25 The food system is financialised
54:28 What are the solutions?
This lecture was filmed at the Ri on 19 September 2023 through the generous support of Digital Science.
The industrialisation and commercialisation of food have transformed our diets, whereby most of our calories now come from an entirely novel set of substances. Ultra Processed Food (UPF) now makes up 60% of the average diet in the UK and USA. It is highly processed, highly addictive, and largely unhealthy.
Join award-winning broadcaster, practising NHS doctor and leading academic Chris van Tulleken as he explores the invention of UPF and its impact on our health and weight – from altering metabolism and appetite to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and tooth decay.
Chris uncovers the limitations of relying solely on exercise and willpower to combat the health risks of high UPF diets. Drawing on his own experiment of eating an 80% UPF diet for one month he provides solutions for both individuals and policymakers to challenge this unregulated industry.
Chris van Tulleken is an infectious diseases doctor at UCLH and one of the UK’s leading science broadcasters. He has won two BAFTAs for his long-running CBBC series Operation Ouch, co-presented with his twin brother Xand, and hosted numerous programmes across the BBC. Following his BBC One documentary ‘What Are We Feeding Our Kids?’ and the chart-topping podcast ‘A Thorough Examination – Addicted to Food’, Chris has become the UK’s go-to expert on ultra-processed food.
Chris trained at Oxford and has a PhD in molecular virology from University College London, where he is now an Associate Professor. His research focuses on how corporations affect human health, especially in the context of nutrition.
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We're in a new age of eating, but how is ultra processed food harming our bodies - and the world?
Buy Chris's book here: https://geni.us/YqqoR
Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe
00:00 Why we need to talk about our diets
03:40 We’re part of an experiment we didn’t sign up for
10:05 What is ultra processed food?
12:50 What Donald Trump got right about UPF
14:20 What Diet Coke does to your health
17:53 How ultra processed food is made
23:55 Why does ultra processed food cause obesity?
29:05 Doesn’t exercise burn calories?
35:37 What about willpower and diet?
38:18 What role do stress and genes play?
39:45 How does ultra processed food harm us?
47:33 How UPF affects the planet
50:41 Ultra processed food is addictive
52:25 The food system is financialised
54:28 What are the solutions?
This lecture was filmed at the Ri on 19 September 2023 through the generous support of Digital Science.
The industrialisation and commercialisation of food have transformed our diets, whereby most of our calories now come from an entirely novel set of substances. Ultra Processed Food (UPF) now makes up 60% of the average diet in the UK and USA. It is highly processed, highly addictive, and largely unhealthy.
Join award-winning broadcaster, practising NHS doctor and leading academic Chris van Tulleken as he explores the invention of UPF and its impact on our health and weight – from altering metabolism and appetite to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and tooth decay.
Chris uncovers the limitations of relying solely on exercise and willpower to combat the health risks of high UPF diets. Drawing on his own experiment of eating an 80% UPF diet for one month he provides solutions for both individuals and policymakers to challenge this unregulated industry.
Chris van Tulleken is an infectious diseases doctor at UCLH and one of the UK’s leading science broadcasters. He has won two BAFTAs for his long-running CBBC series Operation Ouch, co-presented with his twin brother Xand, and hosted numerous programmes across the BBC. Following his BBC One documentary ‘What Are We Feeding Our Kids?’ and the chart-topping podcast ‘A Thorough Examination – Addicted to Food’, Chris has become the UK’s go-to expert on ultra-processed food.
Chris trained at Oxford and has a PhD in molecular virology from University College London, where he is now an Associate Professor. His research focuses on how corporations affect human health, especially in the context of nutrition.
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The science of mental health - with Camilla Nord
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How does the body affect our brain, and vice versa? Can exercise, psychedelics, or the gut biome improve your mental health? Find out with neuroscientist Camill...
How does the body affect our brain, and vice versa? Can exercise, psychedelics, or the gut biome improve your mental health? Find out with neuroscientist Camilla Nord.
Watch the Q&A here (exclusively for our YouTube channel members): https://youtu.be/OP6_xnzIhuI
Buy Camilla's book 'The Balanced Brain: The Science of Mental Health' here: https://geni.us/tBErOVE
This talk was recorded at the Ri on 4 March 2024.
In this talk, Camilla reframes mental health as an intricate, automated process that is different for all of us, relying on the way our bodily processes and our expectations of the world interact in our brains. She explains how our brain uses dopamine to learn what to expect, and how that can change the way we feel day to day. She looks at a variety of treatments, from therapy and medication to recreational drugs and electrical brain stimulation, to show how they work - and why they sometimes don't.
00:00 What is mental health?
7:03 Dopamine, the brain’s learning system and expectations
16:00 The link between our bodies and brains
24:42 How do anti-depressants and therapy work?
30:43 Psychedelics and the placebo effect
33:01 Bodily treatments for mental health
33:25 Anti-inflammatory drugs for depression
34:36 Is exercise a panacea for treating mental health?
37:16 The role of the gut microbiome
39:06 Are we in a mental health crisis?
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Camilla Nord leads the Mental Health Neuroscience Lab at the University of Cambridge. Her lab explores the brain, body, and cognitive changes that drive mental health and disorder. Her lab’s s aim is to translate insights from neuroscience into improved treatments for mental health conditions, whether that’s by making better use of our current treatment arsenal by targeting treatments to personalised brain or cognitive profiles, or inventing novel, neuroscience-based treatments that might be better able to treat disabling symptoms of mental health conditions.
Camilla was named a Rising Star by the US Association for Psychological Science, received the Young Scientist Award from the European Society of Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, and has been awarded over £14 million in research funding, including from Wellcome and the Medical Research Council (MRC). Her work has been widely featured in the media, including in the Sunday Times, BBC’s The Naked Scientist, and the New Statesman. Her first book, The Balanced Brain (Allen Lane) was named one of the FT’s ‘Best books of the year’ in 2023.
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How does the body affect our brain, and vice versa? Can exercise, psychedelics, or the gut biome improve your mental health? Find out with neuroscientist Camilla Nord.
Watch the Q&A here (exclusively for our YouTube channel members): https://youtu.be/OP6_xnzIhuI
Buy Camilla's book 'The Balanced Brain: The Science of Mental Health' here: https://geni.us/tBErOVE
This talk was recorded at the Ri on 4 March 2024.
In this talk, Camilla reframes mental health as an intricate, automated process that is different for all of us, relying on the way our bodily processes and our expectations of the world interact in our brains. She explains how our brain uses dopamine to learn what to expect, and how that can change the way we feel day to day. She looks at a variety of treatments, from therapy and medication to recreational drugs and electrical brain stimulation, to show how they work - and why they sometimes don't.
00:00 What is mental health?
7:03 Dopamine, the brain’s learning system and expectations
16:00 The link between our bodies and brains
24:42 How do anti-depressants and therapy work?
30:43 Psychedelics and the placebo effect
33:01 Bodily treatments for mental health
33:25 Anti-inflammatory drugs for depression
34:36 Is exercise a panacea for treating mental health?
37:16 The role of the gut microbiome
39:06 Are we in a mental health crisis?
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Camilla Nord leads the Mental Health Neuroscience Lab at the University of Cambridge. Her lab explores the brain, body, and cognitive changes that drive mental health and disorder. Her lab’s s aim is to translate insights from neuroscience into improved treatments for mental health conditions, whether that’s by making better use of our current treatment arsenal by targeting treatments to personalised brain or cognitive profiles, or inventing novel, neuroscience-based treatments that might be better able to treat disabling symptoms of mental health conditions.
Camilla was named a Rising Star by the US Association for Psychological Science, received the Young Scientist Award from the European Society of Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, and has been awarded over £14 million in research funding, including from Wellcome and the Medical Research Council (MRC). Her work has been widely featured in the media, including in the Sunday Times, BBC’s The Naked Scientist, and the New Statesman. Her first book, The Balanced Brain (Allen Lane) was named one of the FT’s ‘Best books of the year’ in 2023.
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What is life and how does it work? - with Philip Ball
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Discover a leading-edge new vision of biology that will revise our concept of what life itself is, and how to enhance it.
Sign up as a member to watch the Q&A ...
Discover a leading-edge new vision of biology that will revise our concept of what life itself is, and how to enhance it.
Sign up as a member to watch the Q&A for this talk, and get early ad-free access to all our talks: https://youtu.be/CEoJ88W4aXQ
Buy Philip's book here: https://geni.us/HWnEn8V
00:00 Intro - what is the secret of life?
04:09 Is the human genome a blueprint or a musical score?
7:58 Crick's central dogma of biology
12:03 What scientists got wrong about genes and proteins
18:50 Why evolution chose disordered proteins
22:27 The process of gene regulation
27:03 Why life doesn't work like clockwork
30:29 The growth of intestinal villi
32:18 Why do we have five fingers?
34:55 Causal emergence
38:09 Do all parts of us have their own agency?
42:46 How does this affect genetic approaches to medicine?
48:09 Why do organisms exist at all?
Philip Ball explores the new biology, revealing life to be a far richer, more ingenious affair than we had guessed. There is no unique place to look for an answer to this question: life is a system of many levels—genes, proteins, cells, tissues, and body modules such as the immune system and the nervous system—each with its own rules and principles.
In this talk, discover why some researchers believe that, thanks to incredible scientific advancements, we will be able to regenerate limbs and organs, and perhaps even create new life forms that evolution has never imagined.
Philip Ball is a freelance writer and broadcaster, and was an editor at Nature for more than twenty years. He writes regularly in the scientific and popular media and has written many books on the interactions of the sciences, the arts, and wider culture, including 'H2O: A Biography of Water', 'Bright Earth: The Invention of Colour', 'The Music Instinct', and 'Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything'.
Philip's book 'Critical Mass' won the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books. He is also a presenter of Science Stories, the BBC Radio 4 series on the history of science. He trained as a chemist at the University of Oxford and as a physicist at the University of Bristol. He is the author of 'The Modern Myths' and lives in London.
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Discover a leading-edge new vision of biology that will revise our concept of what life itself is, and how to enhance it.
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00:00 Intro - what is the secret of life?
04:09 Is the human genome a blueprint or a musical score?
7:58 Crick's central dogma of biology
12:03 What scientists got wrong about genes and proteins
18:50 Why evolution chose disordered proteins
22:27 The process of gene regulation
27:03 Why life doesn't work like clockwork
30:29 The growth of intestinal villi
32:18 Why do we have five fingers?
34:55 Causal emergence
38:09 Do all parts of us have their own agency?
42:46 How does this affect genetic approaches to medicine?
48:09 Why do organisms exist at all?
Philip Ball explores the new biology, revealing life to be a far richer, more ingenious affair than we had guessed. There is no unique place to look for an answer to this question: life is a system of many levels—genes, proteins, cells, tissues, and body modules such as the immune system and the nervous system—each with its own rules and principles.
In this talk, discover why some researchers believe that, thanks to incredible scientific advancements, we will be able to regenerate limbs and organs, and perhaps even create new life forms that evolution has never imagined.
Philip Ball is a freelance writer and broadcaster, and was an editor at Nature for more than twenty years. He writes regularly in the scientific and popular media and has written many books on the interactions of the sciences, the arts, and wider culture, including 'H2O: A Biography of Water', 'Bright Earth: The Invention of Colour', 'The Music Instinct', and 'Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything'.
Philip's book 'Critical Mass' won the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books. He is also a presenter of Science Stories, the BBC Radio 4 series on the history of science. He trained as a chemist at the University of Oxford and as a physicist at the University of Bristol. He is the author of 'The Modern Myths' and lives in London.
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- published: 09 Apr 2024
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59:36
The most surprising discoveries from our universe – with Chris Lintott
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Did you know that many profound discoveries about our universe have been made accidentally? Find out more with Chris Lintott.
Buy Chris' book 'Our Accidental U...
Did you know that many profound discoveries about our universe have been made accidentally? Find out more with Chris Lintott.
Buy Chris' book 'Our Accidental Universe: Stories of Discovery from Asteroids to Aliens' here: https://geni.us/IEBBkkY
Watch the Q&A here: https://youtu.be/zKlv8zeBCnU
Join BBC Sky at Night presenter and Gresham Professor of Astronomy Chris Lintott as he unravels tales of peculiar accidents, remarkable individuals, and the occasional human oversight that have collectively shaped some of the most pivotal celestial revelations.
This lecture was recorded at the Ri on 21 March 2024.
00:00 Intro – our accidental universe
4:08 The incredible discovery made on Saturn’s moon Enceladus
13:27 Searching for life across the cosmos
19:16 Radio signals from across the universe?
29:06 Detecting possible structures around planets
39:51 Planetary ingestion – planets eating stars
45:11 Why conditions on Venus are so different from Earth
50:40 How NASA fixed the Hubble telescope in space
54:38 What Hubble discovered by accident
When capturing the first glimpses of the earliest galaxies, the Hubble Space Telescope was focused on a region of space presumed to be vacant. However, the image it produced was anything but – the iconic Hubble Ultra-Deep Field image revealed at least 10,000 galaxies.
Another astonishingly accidental discovery was the hidden story of Enceladus, one of Saturn’s myriad moons. Very little was known about Enceladus until NASA’s Cassini probe revealed its environment in more detail, including its capabilities as a potential haven for life.
The narrative continues with the revelation of pulsars, the remnants of colossal stars long extinguished. They were not uncovered through meticulous observation but rather as hidden gems within the unassuming data, disguised as background noise in the measurements of faint celestial radio signals.
As new observatories and state-of-the-art technology continue to develop, Chris calls for scientists to keep an open mind as the potential for discovery grows, allowing us to unravel the mysteries of the universe.
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Christopher John Lintott is a British astrophysicist, author and broadcaster. He is a Professor of Astrophysics in the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford, and since 2023 is the Gresham Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College, London. Lintott is involved in a number of popular science projects aimed at bringing astronomy to a wider audience and is also the primary presenter of the BBC television series The Sky at Night.
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Did you know that many profound discoveries about our universe have been made accidentally? Find out more with Chris Lintott.
Buy Chris' book 'Our Accidental Universe: Stories of Discovery from Asteroids to Aliens' here: https://geni.us/IEBBkkY
Watch the Q&A here: https://youtu.be/zKlv8zeBCnU
Join BBC Sky at Night presenter and Gresham Professor of Astronomy Chris Lintott as he unravels tales of peculiar accidents, remarkable individuals, and the occasional human oversight that have collectively shaped some of the most pivotal celestial revelations.
This lecture was recorded at the Ri on 21 March 2024.
00:00 Intro – our accidental universe
4:08 The incredible discovery made on Saturn’s moon Enceladus
13:27 Searching for life across the cosmos
19:16 Radio signals from across the universe?
29:06 Detecting possible structures around planets
39:51 Planetary ingestion – planets eating stars
45:11 Why conditions on Venus are so different from Earth
50:40 How NASA fixed the Hubble telescope in space
54:38 What Hubble discovered by accident
When capturing the first glimpses of the earliest galaxies, the Hubble Space Telescope was focused on a region of space presumed to be vacant. However, the image it produced was anything but – the iconic Hubble Ultra-Deep Field image revealed at least 10,000 galaxies.
Another astonishingly accidental discovery was the hidden story of Enceladus, one of Saturn’s myriad moons. Very little was known about Enceladus until NASA’s Cassini probe revealed its environment in more detail, including its capabilities as a potential haven for life.
The narrative continues with the revelation of pulsars, the remnants of colossal stars long extinguished. They were not uncovered through meticulous observation but rather as hidden gems within the unassuming data, disguised as background noise in the measurements of faint celestial radio signals.
As new observatories and state-of-the-art technology continue to develop, Chris calls for scientists to keep an open mind as the potential for discovery grows, allowing us to unravel the mysteries of the universe.
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Christopher John Lintott is a British astrophysicist, author and broadcaster. He is a Professor of Astrophysics in the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford, and since 2023 is the Gresham Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College, London. Lintott is involved in a number of popular science projects aimed at bringing astronomy to a wider audience and is also the primary presenter of the BBC television series The Sky at Night.
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- published: 30 Apr 2024
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55:55
At the limits of astrophysics – with Katy Clough
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- Uploaded Date: 27 Apr 2023
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Why does modern astronomy often sound like science fiction? And how do objects like supermassive black holes, wormholes and warp drives fit into our current und...
Why does modern astronomy often sound like science fiction? And how do objects like supermassive black holes, wormholes and warp drives fit into our current understanding of physics?
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This event was recorded at the Royal Institution on 23 March 2023.
Much of modern astronomy sounds a lot like science fiction - gravitational ripples in the fabric of spacetime, supermassive black holes hiding at the centre of galaxies, habitable exoplanets within the reach of our telescopes…are there any limits to what is out there?
Whilst largely considered to be firmly in the category of fiction, such concepts are nevertheless based on solid scientific ideas about the curvature of spacetime from Einstein’s theory of general relativity. This theory is known to be hugely counter-intuitive, giving rise to singularities, event horizons and time dilation around black holes. In strong gravity regimes things behave very differently to the low gravity environment on the Earth, so our intuition, which is based on our everyday experience, can mislead us. Studying these objects can help us to challenge our understanding of what is “natural”, and better understand the extreme limits of gravitational theory.
Katy Clough is a lecturer and Ernest Rutherford Fellow in the School of Mathematical Sciences at Queen Mary University of London. She studies systems with strong dynamical gravity using numerical simulations, including black holes and the early universe. She is part of the fundamental physics working group for the future space based gravitational wave detector, LISA. Katy’s first degree was in Engineering and her degree in Physics was obtained from the Open University whilst working as a chartered accountant. After her PhD at King’s College London she worked in Goettingen in Germany and in Oxford University in postdoctoral positions. She believes that science is for everyone and that there is no right way to be a scientist.
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Why does modern astronomy often sound like science fiction? And how do objects like supermassive black holes, wormholes and warp drives fit into our current understanding of physics?
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This event was recorded at the Royal Institution on 23 March 2023.
Much of modern astronomy sounds a lot like science fiction - gravitational ripples in the fabric of spacetime, supermassive black holes hiding at the centre of galaxies, habitable exoplanets within the reach of our telescopes…are there any limits to what is out there?
Whilst largely considered to be firmly in the category of fiction, such concepts are nevertheless based on solid scientific ideas about the curvature of spacetime from Einstein’s theory of general relativity. This theory is known to be hugely counter-intuitive, giving rise to singularities, event horizons and time dilation around black holes. In strong gravity regimes things behave very differently to the low gravity environment on the Earth, so our intuition, which is based on our everyday experience, can mislead us. Studying these objects can help us to challenge our understanding of what is “natural”, and better understand the extreme limits of gravitational theory.
Katy Clough is a lecturer and Ernest Rutherford Fellow in the School of Mathematical Sciences at Queen Mary University of London. She studies systems with strong dynamical gravity using numerical simulations, including black holes and the early universe. She is part of the fundamental physics working group for the future space based gravitational wave detector, LISA. Katy’s first degree was in Engineering and her degree in Physics was obtained from the Open University whilst working as a chartered accountant. After her PhD at King’s College London she worked in Goettingen in Germany and in Oxford University in postdoctoral positions. She believes that science is for everyone and that there is no right way to be a scientist.
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- published: 27 Apr 2023
- views: 215911
1:00:59
What's the future for generative AI? - The Turing Lectures with Mike Wooldridge
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AI can now generate human-like language and artwork - but what other doors might it open in future? And how can we harness AI to make great leaps in technology...
AI can now generate human-like language and artwork - but what other doors might it open in future? And how can we harness AI to make great leaps in technology possible?
This talk was filmed at the Ri on 6 December 2023, in partnership with The Alan Turing Institute.
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Join 2023 CHRISTMAS LECTURER Michael Wooldridge for a fascinating discussion on the possibilities and challenges of generative AI models, and their potential impact on future societies. Find out more about the CHRISTMAS LECTURES here: https://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures
00:00 What is machine learning?
05:54 How do neural networks work?
12:49 How Silicon Valley money created Big AI
14:50 The birth of Transformer Architecture
16:06 How was GPT-3 trained and created?
22:12 A massive step change in AI
25:45 How GPT-3 passed the 90s AI reasoning test
28:40 How has AI learned things it wasn't taught?
31:07 Chat GPT and how NOT to use it
32:26 Why do LLMs get things wrong so often?
35:29 The problems of bias and toxicity
39:12 Copyright issues with LLMs
42:23 Interpolation vs Extrapolation
45:44 Is this the dawn of General AI?
49:19 The different varieties of General AI
54:01 What actually is human general intelligence?
56:07 Is machine consciousness possible?
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In partnership with The Alan Turing Institute we've been exploring the various angles of large-language models and generative AI in the public eye. Across three lectures, we aim to provide a comprehensive, thoughtful and engaging understanding of this rapidly emerging field and its impact on society.
Watch the first lecture here: https://youtu.be/_6R7Ym6Vy_I
And the second lecture here: https://youtu.be/s3_P22qf0IM
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Michael Wooldridge is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford. He has been an AI researcher for more than 30 years, and has published more than 400 scientific articles on the subject. He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of AI (AAAI), and a Fellow of the European Association for AI (EurAI).
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Discourses are one of the Ri’s oldest and most prestigious series of talks. Since 1825, audiences in the theatre have witnessed countless mind-expanding moments, including the first public liquefaction of air by James Dewar, the announcement of the electron by JJ Thomson and over 100 lectures by Michael Faraday. In more recent times, we have had Nobel laureates, Fields medal winners, scientists, authors and artists – all from the cutting-edge of their field. Discourses are an opportunity for the best and brightest to share their work with the world.
Steeped in nearly two centuries of tradition, a Discourse is more than just a lecture. The Discourse lasts exactly an hour, and a bell is rung to mark the beginning and end. To keep the focus on the topic, presenters begin sharply at 7:30pm without introduction and we lock the speaker into a room ten minutes ahead of the start (legend has it that a speaker once tried to escape!). Some of our guests and speakers dress smartly for our Discourse events to add to this sense of occasion. Read more about Discourses here: https://www.rigb.org/explore-science/explore/blog/history-friday-evening-discourse
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AI can now generate human-like language and artwork - but what other doors might it open in future? And how can we harness AI to make great leaps in technology possible?
This talk was filmed at the Ri on 6 December 2023, in partnership with The Alan Turing Institute.
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Join 2023 CHRISTMAS LECTURER Michael Wooldridge for a fascinating discussion on the possibilities and challenges of generative AI models, and their potential impact on future societies. Find out more about the CHRISTMAS LECTURES here: https://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures
00:00 What is machine learning?
05:54 How do neural networks work?
12:49 How Silicon Valley money created Big AI
14:50 The birth of Transformer Architecture
16:06 How was GPT-3 trained and created?
22:12 A massive step change in AI
25:45 How GPT-3 passed the 90s AI reasoning test
28:40 How has AI learned things it wasn't taught?
31:07 Chat GPT and how NOT to use it
32:26 Why do LLMs get things wrong so often?
35:29 The problems of bias and toxicity
39:12 Copyright issues with LLMs
42:23 Interpolation vs Extrapolation
45:44 Is this the dawn of General AI?
49:19 The different varieties of General AI
54:01 What actually is human general intelligence?
56:07 Is machine consciousness possible?
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In partnership with The Alan Turing Institute we've been exploring the various angles of large-language models and generative AI in the public eye. Across three lectures, we aim to provide a comprehensive, thoughtful and engaging understanding of this rapidly emerging field and its impact on society.
Watch the first lecture here: https://youtu.be/_6R7Ym6Vy_I
And the second lecture here: https://youtu.be/s3_P22qf0IM
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Michael Wooldridge is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford. He has been an AI researcher for more than 30 years, and has published more than 400 scientific articles on the subject. He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of AI (AAAI), and a Fellow of the European Association for AI (EurAI).
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Discourses are one of the Ri’s oldest and most prestigious series of talks. Since 1825, audiences in the theatre have witnessed countless mind-expanding moments, including the first public liquefaction of air by James Dewar, the announcement of the electron by JJ Thomson and over 100 lectures by Michael Faraday. In more recent times, we have had Nobel laureates, Fields medal winners, scientists, authors and artists – all from the cutting-edge of their field. Discourses are an opportunity for the best and brightest to share their work with the world.
Steeped in nearly two centuries of tradition, a Discourse is more than just a lecture. The Discourse lasts exactly an hour, and a bell is rung to mark the beginning and end. To keep the focus on the topic, presenters begin sharply at 7:30pm without introduction and we lock the speaker into a room ten minutes ahead of the start (legend has it that a speaker once tried to escape!). Some of our guests and speakers dress smartly for our Discourse events to add to this sense of occasion. Read more about Discourses here: https://www.rigb.org/explore-science/explore/blog/history-friday-evening-discourse
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- published: 19 Dec 2023
- views: 475295
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Royal Institution
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The Royal Institution of Great Britain is an organisation for scientific education and research, based in the City of Westminster. It was founded in 1799 by th...
The Royal Institution of Great Britain is an organisation for scientific education and research, based in the City of Westminster. It was founded in 1799 by the leading British scientists of the age, including Henry Cavendish and its first president, George Finch, the 9th Earl of Winchilsea. Its foundational principles were diffusing the knowledge of, and facilitating the general introduction of, useful mechanical inventions and improvements, as well as enhancing the application of science to the common purposes of life.
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The Royal Institution of Great Britain is an organisation for scientific education and research, based in the City of Westminster. It was founded in 1799 by the leading British scientists of the age, including Henry Cavendish and its first president, George Finch, the 9th Earl of Winchilsea. Its foundational principles were diffusing the knowledge of, and facilitating the general introduction of, useful mechanical inventions and improvements, as well as enhancing the application of science to the common purposes of life.
- published: 09 Mar 2021
- views: 103
1:24:44
The dark history of genetics - with Adam Rutherford (2023 HBS Haldane Lecture)
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- Uploaded Date: 23 Apr 2024
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Genetics is a subject with a long past, and some of our greatest geneticists have had some troubling beliefs.
Join this channel to watch the Q&A for this lectu...
Genetics is a subject with a long past, and some of our greatest geneticists have had some troubling beliefs.
Join this channel to watch the Q&A for this lecture: https://youtu.be/HM50DQsfV7Q
Buy Adam's book 'Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics' here: https://geni.us/OrlwiUF
This lecture was recorded at the Ri on 11 October 2023.
Join the 2023 JBS Haldane Lecturer Adam Rutherford as he explores how, as we continue to use and celebrate the advances of our intellectual predecessors, we frequently fail to acknowledge the toxic political views that informed their work.
Even today, scientists are not exempt from their culture, and science is always political. In this talk Adam will explore the work, views and legacies of some of our heroes, including Karl Pearson, Ronald Fisher and yes, JBS Haldane.
The JBS Haldane Lecture recognises an individual for outstanding ability to communicate topical subjects in genetics research, widely interpreted, to an interested lay audience. This speaker will have a flair for conveying the relevance and excitement of recent advances in genetics in an informative and engaging way. Find out more here: https://genetics.org.uk/medals-and-prizes/genetics-society-medals-and-lectures/jbs-haldane-lecture/
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Dr Adam Rutherford is a science writer and broadcaster. He studied genetics at University College London, and during his PhD on the developing eye, he was part of a team that identified the first genetic cause of a form of childhood blindness.
He has written and presented many award-winning series and programmes for the BBC, including the flagship weekly Radio 4 programme 'Inside Science' and 'The curious cases of Rutherford & Fry' with Dr Hannah Fry.
He is the author 'Creation', which was shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Prize, 'A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived', 'The Book of Humans' the Sunday Times bestselling 'How to Argue with a Racist' and the co-author of 'Rutherford and Fry's Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged)'.
Adam's latest book, 'Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics' is available from Amazon here: https://geni.us/OrlwiUF
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Genetics is a subject with a long past, and some of our greatest geneticists have had some troubling beliefs.
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Buy Adam's book 'Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics' here: https://geni.us/OrlwiUF
This lecture was recorded at the Ri on 11 October 2023.
Join the 2023 JBS Haldane Lecturer Adam Rutherford as he explores how, as we continue to use and celebrate the advances of our intellectual predecessors, we frequently fail to acknowledge the toxic political views that informed their work.
Even today, scientists are not exempt from their culture, and science is always political. In this talk Adam will explore the work, views and legacies of some of our heroes, including Karl Pearson, Ronald Fisher and yes, JBS Haldane.
The JBS Haldane Lecture recognises an individual for outstanding ability to communicate topical subjects in genetics research, widely interpreted, to an interested lay audience. This speaker will have a flair for conveying the relevance and excitement of recent advances in genetics in an informative and engaging way. Find out more here: https://genetics.org.uk/medals-and-prizes/genetics-society-medals-and-lectures/jbs-haldane-lecture/
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Dr Adam Rutherford is a science writer and broadcaster. He studied genetics at University College London, and during his PhD on the developing eye, he was part of a team that identified the first genetic cause of a form of childhood blindness.
He has written and presented many award-winning series and programmes for the BBC, including the flagship weekly Radio 4 programme 'Inside Science' and 'The curious cases of Rutherford & Fry' with Dr Hannah Fry.
He is the author 'Creation', which was shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Prize, 'A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived', 'The Book of Humans' the Sunday Times bestselling 'How to Argue with a Racist' and the co-author of 'Rutherford and Fry's Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged)'.
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- published: 23 Apr 2024
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1:00:15
What is a white hole? – with Carlo Rovelli
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Journey into the enigmatic depths of a black hole, with beloved physicist Carlo Rovelli.
Buy Carlo's book here: https://geni.us/nNB6xAs
Become one of our YouTu...
Journey into the enigmatic depths of a black hole, with beloved physicist Carlo Rovelli.
Buy Carlo's book here: https://geni.us/nNB6xAs
Become one of our YouTube channel members and watch the Q&A with Carlo here: https://youtu.be/AVCFV4OLYfQ
This talk was recorded at the Ri on 27 October 2023.
00:00 Intro
3:35 Why do black holes appear circular?
6:05 Travelling into a black hole
10:34 The space inside a black hole
18:50 The quantum properties of gravity
24:06 Loop quantum theory
27:42 Quantum jumps and white holes
32:49 Going beyond Einstein’s theory
34:46 How long does a white hole take to form?
39:51 How do we prove the white hole theory?
45:22 Dark matter and the crisis in physics
49:48 Can we detect white holes?
52:24 Science as mind travel
Step beyond the event horizon of a black hole, and descend into the infinite abyss, where geometry folds and equations tighten around us. Witness the remnants of a star, dense and distant, as we plummet further into the unknown. And at last, behold the birth of a white hole, where time and space cease to exist.
Renowned for his groundbreaking research in quantum gravity and his contributions to loop quantum gravity, a theoretical framework that seeks to reconcile general relativity and quantum mechanics, Carlo will unveil the uncertainty and exhilaration of venturing into uncharted territory.
Carlo has authored several highly influential scientific papers on loop quantum gravity, and has written several popular books that bring his research to the wider public. His book "Seven Brief Lessons on Physics" became an international bestseller, introducing readers to key concepts of modern physics.
Carlo Rovelli is an Italian theoretical physicist, philosopher and writer who has worked in Italy, the United States and, since 2000, in France. His research is focused mainly in the field of quantum gravity and is a founder of loop quantum gravity theory. Carlo is currently head of the quantum group at the Centre de Physique Theorique at Aix-Marseille University, a Distinguished Visiting Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute, and core member of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy of Western University. As a writer, Carlo became a household name after the success of his books ‘Seven Brief Lessons on Physics’ and ‘Reality is Not What It Seems’.
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Journey into the enigmatic depths of a black hole, with beloved physicist Carlo Rovelli.
Buy Carlo's book here: https://geni.us/nNB6xAs
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This talk was recorded at the Ri on 27 October 2023.
00:00 Intro
3:35 Why do black holes appear circular?
6:05 Travelling into a black hole
10:34 The space inside a black hole
18:50 The quantum properties of gravity
24:06 Loop quantum theory
27:42 Quantum jumps and white holes
32:49 Going beyond Einstein’s theory
34:46 How long does a white hole take to form?
39:51 How do we prove the white hole theory?
45:22 Dark matter and the crisis in physics
49:48 Can we detect white holes?
52:24 Science as mind travel
Step beyond the event horizon of a black hole, and descend into the infinite abyss, where geometry folds and equations tighten around us. Witness the remnants of a star, dense and distant, as we plummet further into the unknown. And at last, behold the birth of a white hole, where time and space cease to exist.
Renowned for his groundbreaking research in quantum gravity and his contributions to loop quantum gravity, a theoretical framework that seeks to reconcile general relativity and quantum mechanics, Carlo will unveil the uncertainty and exhilaration of venturing into uncharted territory.
Carlo has authored several highly influential scientific papers on loop quantum gravity, and has written several popular books that bring his research to the wider public. His book "Seven Brief Lessons on Physics" became an international bestseller, introducing readers to key concepts of modern physics.
Carlo Rovelli is an Italian theoretical physicist, philosopher and writer who has worked in Italy, the United States and, since 2000, in France. His research is focused mainly in the field of quantum gravity and is a founder of loop quantum gravity theory. Carlo is currently head of the quantum group at the Centre de Physique Theorique at Aix-Marseille University, a Distinguished Visiting Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute, and core member of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy of Western University. As a writer, Carlo became a household name after the success of his books ‘Seven Brief Lessons on Physics’ and ‘Reality is Not What It Seems’.
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This lecture was an Ri Discourse. Discourses are one of the Ri’s oldest and most prestigious series of talks. Since 1825, audiences in the theatre have witnessed countless mind-expanding moments, including the first public liquefaction of air by James Dewar, the announcement of the electron by JJ Thomson and over 100 lectures by Michael Faraday. In more recent times, we have had Nobel laureates, Fields medal winners, scientists, authors and artists – all from the cutting-edge of their field. Discourses are an opportunity for the best and brightest to share their work with the world.
Steeped in nearly two centuries of tradition, a Discourse is more than just a lecture. To keep the focus on the topic, presenters begin sharply at 7:30pm without introduction and we lock the speaker into a room ten minutes ahead of the start (legend has it that a speaker once tried to escape!). Some of our guests dress smartly for our Discourse events to add to this sense of occasion.
Find out more about the history of the Friday Evening Discourses on our blog: https://www.rigb.org/explore-science/explore/blog/history-friday-evening-discourse
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- published: 23 Nov 2023
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1:01:17
Solving the secrets of gravity - with Claudia de Rham
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A world-renowned physicist seeks gravity’s true nature, and finds wisdom in embracing its force in her life.
Watch the Q&A for this talk here (exclusively for ...
A world-renowned physicist seeks gravity’s true nature, and finds wisdom in embracing its force in her life.
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This talk was recorded at the Ri on 13 April 2024.
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Claudia de Rham has been playing with gravity her entire life. As a diver, experimenting with her body’s buoyancy in the Indian Ocean. As a pilot, soaring over Canadian waterfalls on dark mornings before beginning her daily scientific research. As an astronaut candidate, dreaming of the experience of flying free from Earth’s pull. And as a physicist, discovering new sides to gravity’s irresistible personality by exploring the limits of Einstein’s general theory of relativity.
Join Claudia as she narrates her captivating experiences, navigating the collapse of her dream of becoming an astronaut to the pursuit of finally uncovering the truths of gravity. The brightest minds in physics, from Newton and Einstein to Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose, have yet to uncover gravity’s secrets, but their knowledge allowed Claudia to reimagine the theory of massive gravity to finally rid the “ghosts” of gravity – dark energy. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from a world leader in theoretical physics, as she unravels the turbulent tales of her success.
00:00 Intro - why can't we feel gravity?
4.29 The equivalence principle
7.28 The fabric of spacetime
11:27 Electromagnetism and gravity
16:42 Gravitational waves and Einstein
19:54 The fundamental forces of nature
28:07 The graviton particle
32:51 How gravity behaves in black holes
40:06 Where Einstein's theory of relativity breaks down
49:02 How to weaken gravity
57:01 What would happen if gravitons had mass?
59:06 The importance of gravity
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Claudia de Rham is a professor of theoretical physics at Imperial College London, a Simons Emmy Noether Visiting Fellow at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and an adjunct professor of physics at Case Western Reserve University. She researches gravity, particle physics, and cosmology, in pursuit of a more fundamental description of the nature of our universe. De Rham is a 2020 Simons Investigator in Physics, a 2020 Blavatnik Laureate in Physical Sciences and Engineering, and winner of the 2018 Adams Prize for contributions to Mathematics (previous winners include Stephen Hawking and James Clerk Maxwell). She and her research have been featured in the Guardian, Los Angeles Times, Quanta, and BBC’s “The Naked Scientists,” among other outlets, and she appeared in “Through the Wormhole,” a science documentary series hosted by Morgan Freeman.
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A world-renowned physicist seeks gravity’s true nature, and finds wisdom in embracing its force in her life.
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This talk was recorded at the Ri on 13 April 2024.
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Claudia de Rham has been playing with gravity her entire life. As a diver, experimenting with her body’s buoyancy in the Indian Ocean. As a pilot, soaring over Canadian waterfalls on dark mornings before beginning her daily scientific research. As an astronaut candidate, dreaming of the experience of flying free from Earth’s pull. And as a physicist, discovering new sides to gravity’s irresistible personality by exploring the limits of Einstein’s general theory of relativity.
Join Claudia as she narrates her captivating experiences, navigating the collapse of her dream of becoming an astronaut to the pursuit of finally uncovering the truths of gravity. The brightest minds in physics, from Newton and Einstein to Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose, have yet to uncover gravity’s secrets, but their knowledge allowed Claudia to reimagine the theory of massive gravity to finally rid the “ghosts” of gravity – dark energy. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from a world leader in theoretical physics, as she unravels the turbulent tales of her success.
00:00 Intro - why can't we feel gravity?
4.29 The equivalence principle
7.28 The fabric of spacetime
11:27 Electromagnetism and gravity
16:42 Gravitational waves and Einstein
19:54 The fundamental forces of nature
28:07 The graviton particle
32:51 How gravity behaves in black holes
40:06 Where Einstein's theory of relativity breaks down
49:02 How to weaken gravity
57:01 What would happen if gravitons had mass?
59:06 The importance of gravity
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Claudia de Rham is a professor of theoretical physics at Imperial College London, a Simons Emmy Noether Visiting Fellow at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and an adjunct professor of physics at Case Western Reserve University. She researches gravity, particle physics, and cosmology, in pursuit of a more fundamental description of the nature of our universe. De Rham is a 2020 Simons Investigator in Physics, a 2020 Blavatnik Laureate in Physical Sciences and Engineering, and winner of the 2018 Adams Prize for contributions to Mathematics (previous winners include Stephen Hawking and James Clerk Maxwell). She and her research have been featured in the Guardian, Los Angeles Times, Quanta, and BBC’s “The Naked Scientists,” among other outlets, and she appeared in “Through the Wormhole,” a science documentary series hosted by Morgan Freeman.
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- published: 04 Jun 2024
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57:53
The harsh reality of ultra processed food - with Chris Van Tulleken
We're in a new age of eating, but how is ultra processed food harming our bodies - and the...
published: 26 Oct 2023
The harsh reality of ultra processed food - with Chris Van Tulleken
The harsh reality of ultra processed food - with Chris Van Tulleken
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We're in a new age of eating, but how is ultra processed food harming our bodies - and the world?
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00:00 Why we need to talk about our diets
03:40 We’re part of an experiment we didn’t sign up for
10:05 What is ultra processed food?
12:50 What Donald Trump got right about UPF
14:20 What Diet Coke does to your health
17:53 How ultra processed food is made
23:55 Why does ultra processed food cause obesity?
29:05 Doesn’t exercise burn calories?
35:37 What about willpower and diet?
38:18 What role do stress and genes play?
39:45 How does ultra processed food harm us?
47:33 How UPF affects the planet
50:41 Ultra processed food is addictive
52:25 The food system is financialised
54:28 What are the solutions?
This lecture was filmed at the Ri on 19 September 2023 through the generous support of Digital Science.
The industrialisation and commercialisation of food have transformed our diets, whereby most of our calories now come from an entirely novel set of substances. Ultra Processed Food (UPF) now makes up 60% of the average diet in the UK and USA. It is highly processed, highly addictive, and largely unhealthy.
Join award-winning broadcaster, practising NHS doctor and leading academic Chris van Tulleken as he explores the invention of UPF and its impact on our health and weight – from altering metabolism and appetite to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and tooth decay.
Chris uncovers the limitations of relying solely on exercise and willpower to combat the health risks of high UPF diets. Drawing on his own experiment of eating an 80% UPF diet for one month he provides solutions for both individuals and policymakers to challenge this unregulated industry.
Chris van Tulleken is an infectious diseases doctor at UCLH and one of the UK’s leading science broadcasters. He has won two BAFTAs for his long-running CBBC series Operation Ouch, co-presented with his twin brother Xand, and hosted numerous programmes across the BBC. Following his BBC One documentary ‘What Are We Feeding Our Kids?’ and the chart-topping podcast ‘A Thorough Examination – Addicted to Food’, Chris has become the UK’s go-to expert on ultra-processed food.
Chris trained at Oxford and has a PhD in molecular virology from University College London, where he is now an Associate Professor. His research focuses on how corporations affect human health, especially in the context of nutrition.
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44:22
The science of mental health - with Camilla Nord
How does the body affect our brain, and vice versa? Can exercise, psychedelics, or the gut...
published: 07 May 2024
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How does the body affect our brain, and vice versa? Can exercise, psychedelics, or the gut biome improve your mental health? Find out with neuroscientist Camilla Nord.
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This talk was recorded at the Ri on 4 March 2024.
In this talk, Camilla reframes mental health as an intricate, automated process that is different for all of us, relying on the way our bodily processes and our expectations of the world interact in our brains. She explains how our brain uses dopamine to learn what to expect, and how that can change the way we feel day to day. She looks at a variety of treatments, from therapy and medication to recreational drugs and electrical brain stimulation, to show how they work - and why they sometimes don't.
00:00 What is mental health?
7:03 Dopamine, the brain’s learning system and expectations
16:00 The link between our bodies and brains
24:42 How do anti-depressants and therapy work?
30:43 Psychedelics and the placebo effect
33:01 Bodily treatments for mental health
33:25 Anti-inflammatory drugs for depression
34:36 Is exercise a panacea for treating mental health?
37:16 The role of the gut microbiome
39:06 Are we in a mental health crisis?
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Camilla Nord leads the Mental Health Neuroscience Lab at the University of Cambridge. Her lab explores the brain, body, and cognitive changes that drive mental health and disorder. Her lab’s s aim is to translate insights from neuroscience into improved treatments for mental health conditions, whether that’s by making better use of our current treatment arsenal by targeting treatments to personalised brain or cognitive profiles, or inventing novel, neuroscience-based treatments that might be better able to treat disabling symptoms of mental health conditions.
Camilla was named a Rising Star by the US Association for Psychological Science, received the Young Scientist Award from the European Society of Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, and has been awarded over £14 million in research funding, including from Wellcome and the Medical Research Council (MRC). Her work has been widely featured in the media, including in the Sunday Times, BBC’s The Naked Scientist, and the New Statesman. Her first book, The Balanced Brain (Allen Lane) was named one of the FT’s ‘Best books of the year’ in 2023.
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What is life and how does it work? - with Philip Ball
Discover a leading-edge new vision of biology that will revise our concept of what life it...
published: 09 Apr 2024
What is life and how does it work? - with Philip Ball
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Discover a leading-edge new vision of biology that will revise our concept of what life itself is, and how to enhance it.
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00:00 Intro - what is the secret of life?
04:09 Is the human genome a blueprint or a musical score?
7:58 Crick's central dogma of biology
12:03 What scientists got wrong about genes and proteins
18:50 Why evolution chose disordered proteins
22:27 The process of gene regulation
27:03 Why life doesn't work like clockwork
30:29 The growth of intestinal villi
32:18 Why do we have five fingers?
34:55 Causal emergence
38:09 Do all parts of us have their own agency?
42:46 How does this affect genetic approaches to medicine?
48:09 Why do organisms exist at all?
Philip Ball explores the new biology, revealing life to be a far richer, more ingenious affair than we had guessed. There is no unique place to look for an answer to this question: life is a system of many levels—genes, proteins, cells, tissues, and body modules such as the immune system and the nervous system—each with its own rules and principles.
In this talk, discover why some researchers believe that, thanks to incredible scientific advancements, we will be able to regenerate limbs and organs, and perhaps even create new life forms that evolution has never imagined.
Philip Ball is a freelance writer and broadcaster, and was an editor at Nature for more than twenty years. He writes regularly in the scientific and popular media and has written many books on the interactions of the sciences, the arts, and wider culture, including 'H2O: A Biography of Water', 'Bright Earth: The Invention of Colour', 'The Music Instinct', and 'Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything'.
Philip's book 'Critical Mass' won the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books. He is also a presenter of Science Stories, the BBC Radio 4 series on the history of science. He trained as a chemist at the University of Oxford and as a physicist at the University of Bristol. He is the author of 'The Modern Myths' and lives in London.
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The most surprising discoveries from our universe – with Chris Lintott
Did you know that many profound discoveries about our universe have been made accidentally...
published: 30 Apr 2024
The most surprising discoveries from our universe – with Chris Lintott
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Did you know that many profound discoveries about our universe have been made accidentally? Find out more with Chris Lintott.
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Watch the Q&A here: https://youtu.be/zKlv8zeBCnU
Join BBC Sky at Night presenter and Gresham Professor of Astronomy Chris Lintott as he unravels tales of peculiar accidents, remarkable individuals, and the occasional human oversight that have collectively shaped some of the most pivotal celestial revelations.
This lecture was recorded at the Ri on 21 March 2024.
00:00 Intro – our accidental universe
4:08 The incredible discovery made on Saturn’s moon Enceladus
13:27 Searching for life across the cosmos
19:16 Radio signals from across the universe?
29:06 Detecting possible structures around planets
39:51 Planetary ingestion – planets eating stars
45:11 Why conditions on Venus are so different from Earth
50:40 How NASA fixed the Hubble telescope in space
54:38 What Hubble discovered by accident
When capturing the first glimpses of the earliest galaxies, the Hubble Space Telescope was focused on a region of space presumed to be vacant. However, the image it produced was anything but – the iconic Hubble Ultra-Deep Field image revealed at least 10,000 galaxies.
Another astonishingly accidental discovery was the hidden story of Enceladus, one of Saturn’s myriad moons. Very little was known about Enceladus until NASA’s Cassini probe revealed its environment in more detail, including its capabilities as a potential haven for life.
The narrative continues with the revelation of pulsars, the remnants of colossal stars long extinguished. They were not uncovered through meticulous observation but rather as hidden gems within the unassuming data, disguised as background noise in the measurements of faint celestial radio signals.
As new observatories and state-of-the-art technology continue to develop, Chris calls for scientists to keep an open mind as the potential for discovery grows, allowing us to unravel the mysteries of the universe.
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Christopher John Lintott is a British astrophysicist, author and broadcaster. He is a Professor of Astrophysics in the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford, and since 2023 is the Gresham Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College, London. Lintott is involved in a number of popular science projects aimed at bringing astronomy to a wider audience and is also the primary presenter of the BBC television series The Sky at Night.
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At the limits of astrophysics – with Katy Clough
Why does modern astronomy often sound like science fiction? And how do objects like superm...
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At the limits of astrophysics – with Katy Clough
At the limits of astrophysics – with Katy Clough
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Why does modern astronomy often sound like science fiction? And how do objects like supermassive black holes, wormholes and warp drives fit into our current understanding of physics?
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Much of modern astronomy sounds a lot like science fiction - gravitational ripples in the fabric of spacetime, supermassive black holes hiding at the centre of galaxies, habitable exoplanets within the reach of our telescopes…are there any limits to what is out there?
Whilst largely considered to be firmly in the category of fiction, such concepts are nevertheless based on solid scientific ideas about the curvature of spacetime from Einstein’s theory of general relativity. This theory is known to be hugely counter-intuitive, giving rise to singularities, event horizons and time dilation around black holes. In strong gravity regimes things behave very differently to the low gravity environment on the Earth, so our intuition, which is based on our everyday experience, can mislead us. Studying these objects can help us to challenge our understanding of what is “natural”, and better understand the extreme limits of gravitational theory.
Katy Clough is a lecturer and Ernest Rutherford Fellow in the School of Mathematical Sciences at Queen Mary University of London. She studies systems with strong dynamical gravity using numerical simulations, including black holes and the early universe. She is part of the fundamental physics working group for the future space based gravitational wave detector, LISA. Katy’s first degree was in Engineering and her degree in Physics was obtained from the Open University whilst working as a chartered accountant. After her PhD at King’s College London she worked in Goettingen in Germany and in Oxford University in postdoctoral positions. She believes that science is for everyone and that there is no right way to be a scientist.
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What's the future for generative AI? - The Turing Lectures with Mike Wooldridge
AI can now generate human-like language and artwork - but what other doors might it open i...
published: 19 Dec 2023
What's the future for generative AI? - The Turing Lectures with Mike Wooldridge
What's the future for generative AI? - The Turing Lectures with Mike Wooldridge
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AI can now generate human-like language and artwork - but what other doors might it open in future? And how can we harness AI to make great leaps in technology possible?
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Join 2023 CHRISTMAS LECTURER Michael Wooldridge for a fascinating discussion on the possibilities and challenges of generative AI models, and their potential impact on future societies. Find out more about the CHRISTMAS LECTURES here: https://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures
00:00 What is machine learning?
05:54 How do neural networks work?
12:49 How Silicon Valley money created Big AI
14:50 The birth of Transformer Architecture
16:06 How was GPT-3 trained and created?
22:12 A massive step change in AI
25:45 How GPT-3 passed the 90s AI reasoning test
28:40 How has AI learned things it wasn't taught?
31:07 Chat GPT and how NOT to use it
32:26 Why do LLMs get things wrong so often?
35:29 The problems of bias and toxicity
39:12 Copyright issues with LLMs
42:23 Interpolation vs Extrapolation
45:44 Is this the dawn of General AI?
49:19 The different varieties of General AI
54:01 What actually is human general intelligence?
56:07 Is machine consciousness possible?
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In partnership with The Alan Turing Institute we've been exploring the various angles of large-language models and generative AI in the public eye. Across three lectures, we aim to provide a comprehensive, thoughtful and engaging understanding of this rapidly emerging field and its impact on society.
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Michael Wooldridge is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford. He has been an AI researcher for more than 30 years, and has published more than 400 scientific articles on the subject. He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of AI (AAAI), and a Fellow of the European Association for AI (EurAI).
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Steeped in nearly two centuries of tradition, a Discourse is more than just a lecture. The Discourse lasts exactly an hour, and a bell is rung to mark the beginning and end. To keep the focus on the topic, presenters begin sharply at 7:30pm without introduction and we lock the speaker into a room ten minutes ahead of the start (legend has it that a speaker once tried to escape!). Some of our guests and speakers dress smartly for our Discourse events to add to this sense of occasion. Read more about Discourses here: https://www.rigb.org/explore-science/explore/blog/history-friday-evening-discourse
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Royal Institution
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The Royal Institution of Great Britain is an organisation for scientific education and research, based in the City of Westminster. It was founded in 1799 by the leading British scientists of the age, including Henry Cavendish and its first president, George Finch, the 9th Earl of Winchilsea. Its foundational principles were diffusing the knowledge of, and facilitating the general introduction of, useful mechanical inventions and improvements, as well as enhancing the application of science to the common purposes of life.
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The dark history of genetics - with Adam Rutherford (2023 HBS Haldane Lecture)
Genetics is a subject with a long past, and some of our greatest geneticists have had some...
published: 23 Apr 2024
The dark history of genetics - with Adam Rutherford (2023 HBS Haldane Lecture)
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Genetics is a subject with a long past, and some of our greatest geneticists have had some troubling beliefs.
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This lecture was recorded at the Ri on 11 October 2023.
Join the 2023 JBS Haldane Lecturer Adam Rutherford as he explores how, as we continue to use and celebrate the advances of our intellectual predecessors, we frequently fail to acknowledge the toxic political views that informed their work.
Even today, scientists are not exempt from their culture, and science is always political. In this talk Adam will explore the work, views and legacies of some of our heroes, including Karl Pearson, Ronald Fisher and yes, JBS Haldane.
The JBS Haldane Lecture recognises an individual for outstanding ability to communicate topical subjects in genetics research, widely interpreted, to an interested lay audience. This speaker will have a flair for conveying the relevance and excitement of recent advances in genetics in an informative and engaging way. Find out more here: https://genetics.org.uk/medals-and-prizes/genetics-society-medals-and-lectures/jbs-haldane-lecture/
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Dr Adam Rutherford is a science writer and broadcaster. He studied genetics at University College London, and during his PhD on the developing eye, he was part of a team that identified the first genetic cause of a form of childhood blindness.
He has written and presented many award-winning series and programmes for the BBC, including the flagship weekly Radio 4 programme 'Inside Science' and 'The curious cases of Rutherford & Fry' with Dr Hannah Fry.
He is the author 'Creation', which was shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Prize, 'A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived', 'The Book of Humans' the Sunday Times bestselling 'How to Argue with a Racist' and the co-author of 'Rutherford and Fry's Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged)'.
Adam's latest book, 'Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics' is available from Amazon here: https://geni.us/OrlwiUF
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What is a white hole? – with Carlo Rovelli
Journey into the enigmatic depths of a black hole, with beloved physicist Carlo Rovelli.
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published: 23 Nov 2023
What is a white hole? – with Carlo Rovelli
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Journey into the enigmatic depths of a black hole, with beloved physicist Carlo Rovelli.
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This talk was recorded at the Ri on 27 October 2023.
00:00 Intro
3:35 Why do black holes appear circular?
6:05 Travelling into a black hole
10:34 The space inside a black hole
18:50 The quantum properties of gravity
24:06 Loop quantum theory
27:42 Quantum jumps and white holes
32:49 Going beyond Einstein’s theory
34:46 How long does a white hole take to form?
39:51 How do we prove the white hole theory?
45:22 Dark matter and the crisis in physics
49:48 Can we detect white holes?
52:24 Science as mind travel
Step beyond the event horizon of a black hole, and descend into the infinite abyss, where geometry folds and equations tighten around us. Witness the remnants of a star, dense and distant, as we plummet further into the unknown. And at last, behold the birth of a white hole, where time and space cease to exist.
Renowned for his groundbreaking research in quantum gravity and his contributions to loop quantum gravity, a theoretical framework that seeks to reconcile general relativity and quantum mechanics, Carlo will unveil the uncertainty and exhilaration of venturing into uncharted territory.
Carlo has authored several highly influential scientific papers on loop quantum gravity, and has written several popular books that bring his research to the wider public. His book "Seven Brief Lessons on Physics" became an international bestseller, introducing readers to key concepts of modern physics.
Carlo Rovelli is an Italian theoretical physicist, philosopher and writer who has worked in Italy, the United States and, since 2000, in France. His research is focused mainly in the field of quantum gravity and is a founder of loop quantum gravity theory. Carlo is currently head of the quantum group at the Centre de Physique Theorique at Aix-Marseille University, a Distinguished Visiting Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute, and core member of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy of Western University. As a writer, Carlo became a household name after the success of his books ‘Seven Brief Lessons on Physics’ and ‘Reality is Not What It Seems’.
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Steeped in nearly two centuries of tradition, a Discourse is more than just a lecture. To keep the focus on the topic, presenters begin sharply at 7:30pm without introduction and we lock the speaker into a room ten minutes ahead of the start (legend has it that a speaker once tried to escape!). Some of our guests dress smartly for our Discourse events to add to this sense of occasion.
Find out more about the history of the Friday Evening Discourses on our blog: https://www.rigb.org/explore-science/explore/blog/history-friday-evening-discourse
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Solving the secrets of gravity - with Claudia de Rham
A world-renowned physicist seeks gravity’s true nature, and finds wisdom in embracing its ...
published: 04 Jun 2024
Solving the secrets of gravity - with Claudia de Rham
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A world-renowned physicist seeks gravity’s true nature, and finds wisdom in embracing its force in her life.
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This talk was recorded at the Ri on 13 April 2024.
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Claudia de Rham has been playing with gravity her entire life. As a diver, experimenting with her body’s buoyancy in the Indian Ocean. As a pilot, soaring over Canadian waterfalls on dark mornings before beginning her daily scientific research. As an astronaut candidate, dreaming of the experience of flying free from Earth’s pull. And as a physicist, discovering new sides to gravity’s irresistible personality by exploring the limits of Einstein’s general theory of relativity.
Join Claudia as she narrates her captivating experiences, navigating the collapse of her dream of becoming an astronaut to the pursuit of finally uncovering the truths of gravity. The brightest minds in physics, from Newton and Einstein to Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose, have yet to uncover gravity’s secrets, but their knowledge allowed Claudia to reimagine the theory of massive gravity to finally rid the “ghosts” of gravity – dark energy. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from a world leader in theoretical physics, as she unravels the turbulent tales of her success.
00:00 Intro - why can't we feel gravity?
4.29 The equivalence principle
7.28 The fabric of spacetime
11:27 Electromagnetism and gravity
16:42 Gravitational waves and Einstein
19:54 The fundamental forces of nature
28:07 The graviton particle
32:51 How gravity behaves in black holes
40:06 Where Einstein's theory of relativity breaks down
49:02 How to weaken gravity
57:01 What would happen if gravitons had mass?
59:06 The importance of gravity
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Claudia de Rham is a professor of theoretical physics at Imperial College London, a Simons Emmy Noether Visiting Fellow at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and an adjunct professor of physics at Case Western Reserve University. She researches gravity, particle physics, and cosmology, in pursuit of a more fundamental description of the nature of our universe. De Rham is a 2020 Simons Investigator in Physics, a 2020 Blavatnik Laureate in Physical Sciences and Engineering, and winner of the 2018 Adams Prize for contributions to Mathematics (previous winners include Stephen Hawking and James Clerk Maxwell). She and her research have been featured in the Guardian, Los Angeles Times, Quanta, and BBC’s “The Naked Scientists,” among other outlets, and she appeared in “Through the Wormhole,” a science documentary series hosted by Morgan Freeman.
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Royal Institution
The Royal Institution of Great Britain (often abbreviated as the Royal Institution or RI) is an organisation devoted to scientific education and research, based in London.
Overview
The Royal Institution was founded in 1799 by the leading British scientists of the age, including Henry Cavendish and its first president, George Finch, the 9th Earl of Winchilsea, for
Much of its initial funding and the initial proposal for its founding were given by the Society for Bettering the Conditions and Improving the Comforts of the Poor, under the guidance of philanthropist Sir Thomas Bernard and American-born British scientist Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford. Since its founding it has been based at 21 Albemarle Street in Mayfair. Its Royal Charter was granted in 1800. The Institution announced in January 2013 that it was considering sale of its Mayfair headquarters to meet its mounting debts.
History
Throughout its history, the Institution has supported public engagement with science through a program of lectures, many of which continue today. The most famous of these are the annual Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, founded by Michael Faraday.
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Great Britain
by: Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius PipI'm from a little place call great Britain
But I dunno if I love or hate Britain
These words upon my page written
Are the things that make and break Britain
See I'm from a little place call great Britain
But I dunno if I love or hate Britain
These words upon my page written
Are the things that make and break Britain
One inch to the left, to the left,
Could of been the difference between life and death,
Knife wound to the heart to the side of the chest,
Could of been one statistic less.
See sometimes great Britain ain't that great,
Kids getting stabbed at an alarming rate,
Pressed with a pattern to exonerate,
Increasingly clueless heads of state?
You see knife crime knife crime ain't about knifes,
It's about young Britain and the ways of lives,
You don't solve knife crime by taking knifes to hand,
You solve it by instilling new hopes and plans,
You've got positives though, I swear its true,
In all south east west and the midlands too.
God damn viresty, that shines right through.
Who's makes the best music in the world, we do
I'm from a little place call great Britain
But I dunno if I love or hate Britain
These words upon my page written
Are the things that make and break Britain
See I'm from a little place call great Britain
But I dunno if i love or hate Britain
These words upon my page written
Are the things that make and break Britain
In a 2008 - 2009 goverment report,
Violent crime was not listed to increase
Or decrease, it was instead listed as stable.
Now what I ask you is, is stable really acceptable?
You see between 2003 and 2008,
The number of children admited into NHS hospitals
With knife wounds saw a rise of 120%
So in my eyes, 2008-2009 stability just makes that card as desenotised
But statistics can be twisted, and out of context aren't realistic
I'm from a little place call great Britain
But I dunno if I love or hate Britain
These words upon my page written
Are the things that make and break Britain
See I'm from a little place call great Britain
But I dunno if I love or hate Britain
These words upon my page written